Ok, so the answer to my frustration is to update my lovely 10yr old iMac and Mac mini and get faster broadband (I'm still on super slow 2.5mbps here!) but could there be a limit to the size of images included in posts?

One current members only thread has 5 photos included with a total file size of 13mb. I don't see the need for posting large photos with dimensions of 4, 3 or 2 thousand pixels. It's so easy to resize photos for the web but I guess it's just easier (quicker) to upload the full size photo.

Anyway, I'm not going to do this to my macs but will just have to have more while I wait for big images to load or I could just do some framing

Think I'll put the kettle on... actually on the hob, it takes ages

"You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything!"Oliver Hardy.

The resolution of cameras is increasing almost daily and therefore the file size of the photos. When I were a lad 3mp was only for pros who could afford them. The cameras on phones are now considerably bigger than that.

There are plenty of free image editing software progs that will resize images and convert to .jpg if necessary. Keep the original full size one and resize a copy.

No, don't do that IFGL, the more images the better. I was just having a morning rant As you say, you're broadband is over 30 times faster than mine Life is generally slow up in South Lakes so I'm used to it really

"You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything!"Oliver Hardy.

Very slow here in Polzeath too - but supposedly we are having Superfast installed on the 6th Sept , that should sort me out because like David those 5 images took a couple of minutes to load last night.

Regardless, I think resizing photos to suit their use is a good discipline, it saves on space on the server - helps to keep costs down.

I didn't know pics from my phone was so big.
Even on 2.5 mb it should not take more than a few seconds to show those files, try clearing your browsers cache, If that doesn't help, I suspect there is connectivety problem somewhere near you, if you have a windows computer , open a command prompt window and type tracert http://theframersforum.com

This will trace each step (hop) to the forum and give you a ping between each step if one step has a significantly higher ping then there is your fault, you can send that info to your isp who should fix it.